To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to limit attorney fees and penalties in citizen suits, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 892.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HUNTER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 19, January 30, 2019, Pages H1337-H1338):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 of the US Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 30, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  54 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 892, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/892

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  91ce3c4ddbc0641027e5bb10f8397119cf0671e81bda64ff639f73891b90f2aa

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of January 3, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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